Any payload launched with Atlas V can be launched with one of the Delta IV rockets. That was the whole purpose of the EELV program to begin with. The problem is a lot of payloads are dimensioned to fit in a Lockheed Martin Atlas V with Russian RD-180 engines and won't fit into anything smaller than the Boeing Delta IV Heavy with US RS-68 engines and the Delta IV Heavy costs... a lot.
You bet. Just reading the Me262 Wikipedia page should be fun. But the thing is the Germans had issues getting strategic materials and material technology was improved later on.
China has an appalling coal miner safety record. That is where most of the confirmed, as in you can x-ray the lungs of these people and see the dust in them, coal deaths come from. The other deaths, some may be directly diagnosed as particulate pollution deaths, but a lot of these people will just silently die as be signed off as dead from hearth disease which was in fact caused by the coal power plant emissions. Coal power plant emissions cause cardiovascular problems. Those people do not even get accounted for.
I can't help feeling that Linux, while extraordinarily powerful, has less relavance now than it did 10 years ago.
Surely you are joking. Not only did it dethrone nearly all UNIXes used for server side tasks, is used in nearly all Top500 supercomputers, but it is ubiquitous on Android mobile platforms as well. If this is not success what is?
A lot of what SpaceX is doing was not done 50 years ago but more like 30 years ago. Often it was not done before in the US. One example would be the channel wall nozzle used in the Merlin 1D engine.
SpaceX also does some things which were not done before like the lightweight tanks they use which can keep its shape while empty. The stage design they use is a lot cheaper to manufacture than the stiffened isogrid construction used in the EELVs.
SpaceX does a lot more R&D than its detractors like to think.
The "added cost" is bullshit. What they mean is they couldn't milk revenue from the search provider. But the thing is Google is banking on the OS development which is certainly not cheap. If it was the smartphone vendors would have forked it by now.
Probably all of them. But the astroturfing smells more like Microsoft than anything else. Remember Nokia selling those Android based phones in India?
Microsoft probably wants to 'embrace and extend' Android. They probably figured out by now it is Apache Licensed. But if they cannot sell it to 3rd parties who already sell Android devices their market share is going to be slim indeed. It is not like they have not done this before. They tried it with Java once.
Yeah the id Tech engines have lost any market share they had to Unreal Engine or CryEngine.
When you consider that Zenimax itself did not use the id Tech engines e.g. Fallout 3 uses Gamebryo, Dishonored uses Unreal Engine 3, what was the point in buying it? Was it because they thought id Tech 5 would be worth it? With Carmack gone any further engine development is probably not going to happen. So id Tech 5 will probably be the last engine they will have.
No man. The Google Play Store is checked for malware and things like that. The issue is a lot of people install apps they got from somewhere else. But you know what? More power to them. At least they can pick other places to shop instead of Apple's one sure way or go to the highway.
A lot of the malware exists because people can sideload apps. I would rather continue being able to sideload apps that I developed myself rather than pay Apple for the privilege of running my own code on my own device.
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No man. RD-180 is used by Lockheed Martin Atlas V. Boeing Delta IV uses US RS-68 engines. ULA = Lockheed Martin + Boeing.
The other engine they mentioned is sold by Aerojet and used in the Orbital Antares/Taurus II rocket.
This seems like good news for SpaceX to me. The ones most screwed in this deal will actually be a Russian company. i.e. Energomash.
Any payload launched with Atlas V can be launched with one of the Delta IV rockets. That was the whole purpose of the EELV program to begin with. The problem is a lot of payloads are dimensioned to fit in a Lockheed Martin Atlas V with Russian RD-180 engines and won't fit into anything smaller than the Boeing Delta IV Heavy with US RS-68 engines and the Delta IV Heavy costs... a lot.
You bet. Just reading the Me262 Wikipedia page should be fun. But the thing is the Germans had issues getting strategic materials and material technology was improved later on.
Terrafugia flying car not good enough for you?
No man. AK-103 don't grow spontaneously.
Where did you get this BS? From viewing the China Syndrome movie? It did not reach the water table. The water was from the cooling loop.
I don't know what is worse your awfully misguided comments or the fact that people actually modded up. Jesus.
China has an appalling coal miner safety record. That is where most of the confirmed, as in you can x-ray the lungs of these people and see the dust in them, coal deaths come from. The other deaths, some may be directly diagnosed as particulate pollution deaths, but a lot of these people will just silently die as be signed off as dead from hearth disease which was in fact caused by the coal power plant emissions. Coal power plant emissions cause cardiovascular problems. Those people do not even get accounted for.
I can't help feeling that Linux, while extraordinarily powerful, has less relavance now than it did 10 years ago.
Surely you are joking. Not only did it dethrone nearly all UNIXes used for server side tasks, is used in nearly all Top500 supercomputers, but it is ubiquitous on Android mobile platforms as well. If this is not success what is?
The desktop needs to be thought over again.
A lot of what SpaceX is doing was not done 50 years ago but more like 30 years ago. Often it was not done before in the US. One example would be the channel wall nozzle used in the Merlin 1D engine.
SpaceX also does some things which were not done before like the lightweight tanks they use which can keep its shape while empty. The stage design they use is a lot cheaper to manufacture than the stiffened isogrid construction used in the EELVs.
SpaceX does a lot more R&D than its detractors like to think.
Good luck getting a PhD without giving classes to students.
Plus secondary school students are not little children.
That actually costs money that can be used to pad manager salaries.
The "added cost" is bullshit. What they mean is they couldn't milk revenue from the search provider. But the thing is Google is banking on the OS development which is certainly not cheap. If it was the smartphone vendors would have forked it by now.
They own a lot of others things from the ad platform to the maps applications, iTunes store, etc.
I was surprised they did not sue their pants off because of the iTunes store monopoly at the time.
Probably all of them. But the astroturfing smells more like Microsoft than anything else. Remember Nokia selling those Android based phones in India?
Microsoft probably wants to 'embrace and extend' Android. They probably figured out by now it is Apache Licensed. But if they cannot sell it to 3rd parties who already sell Android devices their market share is going to be slim indeed. It is not like they have not done this before. They tried it with Java once.
All they have to do is split their manufacturing division from their devices division.
Yeah same here. Just because it is bundled by default it doesn't mean it cannot be removed from the desktop.
Good luck doing that on iOS. Apple decides who gets bundled as default.
Yeah the id Tech engines have lost any market share they had to Unreal Engine or CryEngine.
When you consider that Zenimax itself did not use the id Tech engines e.g. Fallout 3 uses Gamebryo, Dishonored uses Unreal Engine 3, what was the point in buying it? Was it because they thought id Tech 5 would be worth it? With Carmack gone any further engine development is probably not going to happen. So id Tech 5 will probably be the last engine they will have.
It was a lame duck buy.
No man. The Google Play Store is checked for malware and things like that. The issue is a lot of people install apps they got from somewhere else. But you know what? More power to them. At least they can pick other places to shop instead of Apple's one sure way or go to the highway.
Most of the cellphone market is smartphones now. Sorry bud.
He's probably one of those Apple fanboys who only compares iOS marketshare in the US in the quarter a new iPhone model comes out.
the cheap/low-end Android phones can still be found coming out brand new with 2.2/2.3 installed on the damned things
BS
A lot of the malware exists because people can sideload apps. I would rather continue being able to sideload apps that I developed myself rather than pay Apple for the privilege of running my own code on my own device.
Just create a crypto library and make OpenSSH and LibreSSL depend on that instead of duplicating hard to debug code everywhere.
You are ignoring the cost of the batteries.